LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ivory, on a separately carved ivory support and an ivory and wood base

Size Notes:

group; base: 7 cm

Markings:

with an old label to the base inscribed in ink: D106

Literature:

La sculpture au siècle de Rubens dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège, exh. cat. Musée d'art ancien, Brussels, 1977, p. 104, no. 68; P. Philippott, D. Coekelberghs, P. Loze and D. Vautier, L'architecture religieuse et la sculpture Baroques dans Les Pays-Bas Meridionaux et La Principauté de Liege 1600-1770, Sprimont, 2003, pp. 863-885; M. Boudon-Machuel, François du Quesnoy 1597-1643, Paris, 2005, pp. 327-328, 336-337, nos. In.119, In.127 ex. 1-6 

Provenance:

Sotheby's London, 10 December 1981, lot 176; on loan to Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, September 2009 to December 2012